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100 1 _aTaylor, John B,
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260 _aNew York, New York :
_bFriendship Press,
_c(c)1979.
260 _aLondon, England :
_bLutterworth Press,
_c(c)1971.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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245 1 4 _aThe world of Islam /
_cJohn B. Taylor.
_hPR
246 3 _aThanking about Islam
250 _aNorth American edition.
300 _a56 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
505 0 0 _aThe one god --
_tThe meaning of Islam --
_tThe way to become a Muslim --
_tMonotheism before Islam --
_tJews and Christians in Arabia --
_tMuslims' faith in the one god --
_tThe nature of the one god --
_tGod's claims on all humanity. --
_tThe holy Quran --
_tMuhammad's experience --
_tThe text of the Quran --
_tTranslations of the Quran --
_tA suggestion as to how to read the Quran in translation --
_tHumanity's duty to God in the Quran --
_tOur duty to our neighbor in the Quran. --
_tThe prophet Muhammad --
_tThe role of the prophet --
_tMuhammad's early life --
_tMuhammad's call to prophethood --
_topposition to the Early Muslims --
_tThe emigration to Medina --
_tthe community at Medina --
_tThe fall of Mecca --
_tMuhammad as a ruler. --
_tThe community of Muslims --
_tThe spread of Islam --
_tThe military achievement --
_tThe organization of the community --
_tThe schools of law --
_tOrthodox theology as a cement --
_tThe orthodox position. --
_tThe contribution of individuals and minority groups --
_tThe role of the individual in Sunni Islam --
_tThe Golden age of Islam --
_tThe philosophers --
_tThe mystics --
_tThe mystical orders --
_tAl-Ghazali --
_tThe Shiis --
_tNon-Muslims under Muslim Rule. --
_tSuccesses and disappointments in Islamic history --
_tIdeal and practice --
_tThe decline of the Caliphate --
_tNizam al-Mulk --
_tThe crusades --
_tThe Mongol invasion --
_tThe medieval empires of Islam --
_tThe expansion of Islam into Africa and south east Asia. --
_tModern Muslims' hopes for the future --
_tMemories of past glories --
_tThe traditionalists --
_tThe modernists --
_tThe secularists --
_tFuture prospects for Islam.
520 0 _aOne cannot understand the Middles East and its dynamic apart from Islam, the faith that motivates and guides the lives of more than 90 percent of the people who live there. The world of Islam offers a brief and concise introduction to this faith, which, although born in the Arab world, now has its largest number of adherents in Asia and Africa, with growing communities in both Europe and North America.
_cIintroduction.
650 0 4 _aIslam.
655 0 4 _aReligious.
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